Enhanced base-pair opening in the adenine tract of a RNA double helix

Biochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1857-1863

  Huang, Yuegao ^a   Weng, Xiaoli ^a   Russu, Irina M ^a  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE TRACTS; AMMONIA CONCENTRATIONS; BASE PAIRS; DNA DUPLEXES; DOUBLE HELIX; EXCHANGE RATES; IMINO PROTONS; OPENING REACTIONS; PROTON EXCHANGE; RNA DUPLEXES;

DNA; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTONS; REACTION RATES; RNA;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ADENINE; AMMONIA; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PROTON; RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA STRAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON TRANSPORT; RNA STABILITY;

ADENINE; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

EID: 79952793757     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi1014997     Document Type: Article

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